5 responses to “Studio Organizing, Week 49”

It wasn’t a drawer I cleared last week, but I re-organized my two boxes of quilt tops. Now any top with backing fabric is in the smaller box on the floor and only those quilt tops which need backing are in the larger box on the top shelf – turns out the top only box has lots of space in it and with the UFOs I’ve been finishing there’s a little space in the top/backing box – although not much. As for this week’s challenge, I want to finish up two – the Hardware Panel quilt which needs binding (quilted it Saturday) and the Red Disappearing 9-Patch which I started quilting last week. I suspect though I’ll still be stitching up to Christmas Day!

I have been cutting away off and on since last April from fabrics left from my Mother’s stash of scraps. These are 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, and even 60’s leftovers from her garment sewing. Probably most are the 50’s and 60’s era but a lot of it is feedsacks and they have the 30’s and 40’s looks to them. Anyway, I saw somewhere someone had cut squares of such fabrics and sewed them into a row and attached (appliqued by machine) that row across a plain tea towel. I have completed 3 sets of 2 of these to give to my three daughters. This is a little something leftover from their Great Grandmother Lola. I will give these sets for Christmas with a copy of a recipe in her handwriting. I have lots of those also.
All of this was meant to get rid of all the scraps from Mother. It was originally a large cardboard box and it is down now to one plastic sweater bin. I call that progress!!